Divers have captured rare underwater video of an adult great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time in the region, according to multiple reports. The footage was filmed off the coast of Sicily, Italy, during a recent dive. One account describes the encounter as a surprise while a team removed abandoned fishing nets from a shipwreck near Sicily, after which the shark was observed swimming underwater. Other coverage characterizes the event as possibly the first-ever underwater filmed sighting of an adult great white in the Mediterranean. BBC News reports that a volunteer diver describes shaking while filming the encounter, with the shark sighted in waters between Tunisia and Sicily. CBS News notes that great white sharks are classified as “critically endangered” in the Mediterranean and that underwater sightings are very rare. Across the articles, the shark’s presence is consistently linked to a dive in the Sicily area, and the key common element is that diver-supplied underwater footage documents the sighting.